| "suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself." »Mark Twain |
| "To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose." »John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
| "I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." »Charles Lamb |
| "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." »Arthur Miller |
| "I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts." »G. B. Burgin |
| "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson |
| "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." »Elizabeth Drew |
| "It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow." »Charles Churchill |
| "I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point" »Courteney Cox |
| "There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'" »William Ralph Inge |
| "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do." »Josh Billings |
| "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." »Samuel Smiles |
| "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." »Stephen Jay Gould |
| "What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Tracy I swore 37 times in the last month. I said the 'f-word' a couple of times, but it was mostly 'shit's and 'bastard's. Is 'douche bag' a curse Graham I suppose it would depend on the context. Tracy How about John you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara Graham It's a curse. Tracy Oh, well then it's not 37 times it's 71 times." »Signs |
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